Shelly's husband moves her into a retirement home, where she lives in squalor until Michael takes enough pictures of her to make her forget how to breathe, allowing her to die.

The material quickly hardens to a metallic solid, which he ultimately uses in his graduate research to develop a revolutionary memory storage system for electronic devices.

Buying a pistol from a friend, he responds to a jilted mistress killing her partner and boss by shooting her, as well as a Muslim woman and her infant son, thinking both women were in league as part of a terrorist attack.

The "food" it produces causes severe internal bleeding, and any attempt to reach the center of the cloud or even think about reversing its course triggers a powerful psychic attack that leaves him nearly unable to function.

The rain of "nails" (later determined to be a form of fulgurite) proves to have occurred over much of the world, causing millions of deaths and throwing human civilization into chaos.

Upon returning to Boulder, Honeysuckle discovers that the deadly rain was caused by Templeton's mother Ursula, bitter over the decision of her late husband's employers to relocate to Georgia and steal his chemical research.

She has used his work to seed the clouds and planted evidence to frame terrorists in Georgia for the disaster, leading the president of the United States to obliterate the country in a nuclear strike.

Strange Weather has received primarily positive reviews,[2] with Kirkus referring to the collection as "sparkling" and concluding "Worth waiting in line for, if you’re a Hill fan.